Downtime: Child of the New World (novel)

Downtime: Child of the New World
Main character(s):	Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
Featuring:	Kate, Gordon, Conall, Anne
Main enemy:	Yeti, Maitreya
Main setting:	London, Tibet, 2004
Key crew
Publishers:	Candy Jar Books
Writer:	Andy Frankham-Allen
Cover by:	Adrian Salmon, Martin Baines
Release details
Price:	£25 (hardback) £10 (paperback)
Release date:	28 July 2020
Format:	Hardback, 187 pages Paperback, 222 pages
Lethbridge-Stewart
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Downtime: Child of the New World, later on labelled as Downtime 2 and titled Children of the New World, was a novel in the Lethbridge-Stewart series, released by Candy Jar Books in 2020. It was a sequel to the Reeltime Pictures film Downtime.

Publisher's summary

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart joins her father, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, in a mission to save her son’s life!

For the last nine years Kate’s life has been one full of contentment. Other than a minor blip in 2003, she hasn’t had to worry about aliens bothering her or her son. Indeed, her biggest concern is Gordy’s first girlfriend. But it all changes when a face from her past appears, bringing with him a warning.

Gordy, and his cousin Conall, is kidnapped by a radical group calling themselves the Sāmaṇeras of Maitreya!

The Brigadier and Kate set off on a mission to the ruins of Det-Sen Monastery in Tibet where an ancient power is about to rise. It a mission that will tear the Brigadier’s family apart, bringing them face to face with their worst fears and inner demons!

Plot

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Characters

• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
• Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Conall Lethbridge-Stewart
• Doris Lethbridge-Stewart
• Ingrid Campbell
• Beth Chase
• Gabe Chase
• Tamara Wilson
• Albert Wilson
• Anne Bishop
• Douglas Cavendish
• Obasi Lethbridge-Stewart
• Mariama Lethbridge-Stewart
• Margaret Thatcher

Worldbuilding

• After divorcing Alistair, Fiona Campbell married again and had another daughter, Kate's half-sister, Ingrid.

Notes

• The prologue incorporates text from Marc Platt's novel Downtime, and continues on from it.
• Both versions of the novel were limited editions, the paperback being limited to 500 copies, and the hardback to 50 copies, however due to high demand, the publisher produced more copies.
• The limited hardback edition included an artwork postcard signed by Andy Frankham-Allen, an exclusive forward by original Kate Lethbridge-Stewart actor, Beverley Cressman, an additional chapter not in the paperback, though this was later changed to a free copy of The Lucy Wilson Mysteries anthology Back in London.
• The signed artwork postcard had varied messages on the back.

Continuity

• In 1995, directly following HOMEVID: Downtime, Alistair told Kate about her extended family, namely her brothers and nephews and niece.
• Lethbridge-Stewart was called into service to defeat Morgaine in 1997 and had a role in the events on Lanyon Moor four years ago. (TV: Battlefield, AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor) Last year he was also called out to Malebolgia. (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell)
• Kate and Douglas defeated the Dæmon Mastho last October. (HOMEVID: Dæmos Rising)
• The kidnappers hole up in a flat in Bucknall House on the Powell Estate, and make reference to a woman called Jacks and her gobby daughter. (TV: Rose, Aliens of London)
• Anne has heard from Bill Bishop that UNIT could be replaced by the Internal Counter-Intelligence Service. (AUDIO: The Coup)
• Edward Travers is buried in concrete under The Vault. (PROSE: Night of the Intelligence)

External links

• Official Downtime: Child of the New World page at Candy Jar Books